Keeping it Together: Meghan Trainor reveals why she got plastic surgery

It wasn’t a matter of if Meghan Trainor was going to get plastic surgery, but when.

The Grammy winner, 31, says she’s been looking forward to getting breast implants since she was a teenager. Trainor remembers getting picked on for having “saggy” and lopsided breasts, and even after rising to stardom in 2014, those insecurities were only intensified by the spotlight and the “pop star life.” After weight gain during COVID-19 lockdowns, subsequent weight loss, pregnancy and two C-sections, Trainor says: “I got to a place where I hated what was on my chest.”

“It was tough to look at my body,” Trainor says. “I’m always singing about loving myself, and it got harder and harder with all the scars and stretch marks. And then after losing weight, too, these boobs were just purely empty, just flat and just felt like skin on my body.”

Hi! I'm Alyssa, a wellness reporter at Paste BN. This week, I spoke with Meghan Trainor about her recent surgery and lifelong struggle with body image.

“Every time I get asked about, like, ‘How are you so confident?’ I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m not,’” Trainor admits. “Writing these songs is just my therapy for trying to love myself more.”

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